Testimony of Ben Aroia Luna, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1923, regarding life during the war

Family background; Hashomer Hatzair; aliya training for aliya to Eretz Israel; Hebrew studies; deportation of 4,000 Jews from Thrace and Macedonia, including family members of Turkish origin; journey to Sofia; Bulgarian Kristallnacht, September 1940; hunger at home; move to live with a non-Jewish family; attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel; marriage in 1941; yellow badges; eviction from the home of the non-Jewish family in September 1943, and their belongings thrown into the street; "Aktion"; detention of her brother, who is sent for forced labor; payment of a bribe to a police officer; the entry of the Red Army; aliya to Israel in October 1948; absorption in Israel.